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    RetroPie 3.7 + Child friendly EmulationStation wont start

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      Zigurana @dsstrainer
      last edited by

      @dsstrainer :
      Hey, good to hear you are having less issues. For my testcases, could you please list some examples of directories and their content which definitely fail for you?
      Something like :

      • /system 1/game 1 (favorite, kid game)
      • /system 1/subdir/game2 (non-fav, non-kid)
      • /system 1/subdir/game3 (fav, non-kid)
      • etc...

      I am having some difficulty to fully recreate the situation where this fails so badly.

      Regarding donations, I appreciate the gesture, but please donate to the Retropie project instead. Without their ceaseless efforts, none of us would be here now.

      Thanks for giving kid-friendly EmulationStation a try.

      If tetris has thought me anything, it's that errors pile up and that accomplishments dissappear.

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        dquez
        last edited by dquez

        First off thank you for your hard work. I love the idea of a kiosk/child mode so that I can let my Niece use my arcade without watching her every move.

        I didn't realize it at the time and already restored a back up image from before installing the kid-friendly package but it looks like I ran into the same issues as @dsstrainer.

        I have Retropie 4.1 installed and after I installed the kid-friendly package emulationstation would not start. I just got sent back to the command prompt and my keyboard would no longer respond.

        I do have a subfolder under my arcade system. It is only 1 level deep and the name of the folder is "-Fighters". I don't have any roms marked as favorite or kid yet.

        Arcade/-Fighters/all games are non-fav, non-kid)

        Maybe folder names starting with special characters are bad? I use the hyphen to keep the subfolder at the top of the game list.

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          dsstrainer @Zigurana
          last edited by dsstrainer

          Yes, in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes
          I had a folder for each letter of the alphabet. A, B, C, D, etc
          But then I tried testing with just a single folder for "A" and it also caused it
          So pretty much having a folder within the nes rom directory caused it... or perhaps a folder with rom files in it. Can't recall the exact situation but one of those. I will try to reproduce.

          RetroPie v4.2 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 8GB SanDisk class 10 microSD • 16GB External USB Thumb Drive
          Roms, images and configs stored in USB and symlinked from normal microsd location
          Xarcade Keyboard encoder + Zero Delay Joystick encoder

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            dsstrainer
            last edited by

            Added a folder named "MegamanX" to the psx folder, same thing happened.
            I am using Kiosk mode tho it happens with full mode as well.
            I have favorites disabled
            Removed the folder and left just the game files and it works fine.

            So I assume it should be easy to reproduce just by adding any folder with a game file in it to any emulator.

            RetroPie v4.2 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 8GB SanDisk class 10 microSD • 16GB External USB Thumb Drive
            Roms, images and configs stored in USB and symlinked from normal microsd location
            Xarcade Keyboard encoder + Zero Delay Joystick encoder

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              FrozenStorm @dquez
              last edited by

              @dquez I am in the same boat as you. Just started a 4.1 build, opted to install kid-friendly (LOVE this idea!)

              @Zigurana I can ssh into the pi, and an attempt to run emulationstation yields the following output:

              lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/amstradcpc/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/amstradcpc/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/arcade/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/arcade/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atari2600/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atari2600/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atari7800/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atari7800/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atarilynx/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/atarilynx/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/fba/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/fba/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/fds/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/fds/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gamegear/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gamegear/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gb/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gb/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gba/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gba/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gbc/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/gbc/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mame-libretro/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mame-libretro/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mame-mame4all/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mame-mame4all/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mastersystem/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/mastersystem/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/megadrive/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/msx/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/msx/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/n64/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/n64/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/neogeo/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/neogeo/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/nes/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/ngp/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/ngp/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/ngpc/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/ngpc/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/pcengine/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/pcengine/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/psp/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/psp/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/psx/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/sega32x/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/sega32x/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/segacd/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/segacd/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/sg-1000/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/sg-1000/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/snes/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/vectrex/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/vectrex/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/zxspectrum/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Could not find <gameList> node in gamelist "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/zxspectrum/gamelist.xml"!
lvl0:   Tried to use unset setting ShowHidden!
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
  what():  map::at
Aborted
reset: standard error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

              Happy to help in any way I can, I'm really new to owning a pi and retropie but I'm a reasonably savvy developer hoping to share my childhood favorite games with my daughter!

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                FrozenStorm @FrozenStorm
                last edited by

                @FrozenStorm This was caused by a subfolder in my roms/psx folder, and removing it fixes everything on 4.1! I should have read farther up

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                  dsstrainer
                  last edited by

                  Seems it is only folders with roms in them. While I could not run KillerInstinct because the pi isn't powerful enough, ES didn't crash when I uploaded the kinst/kinst.chd folder

                  RetroPie v4.2 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 8GB SanDisk class 10 microSD • 16GB External USB Thumb Drive
                  Roms, images and configs stored in USB and symlinked from normal microsd location
                  Xarcade Keyboard encoder + Zero Delay Joystick encoder

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                    dsstrainer
                    last edited by

                    Any chance we'll get a fix for the subfolders issue? I just realized it would be nice to be able to categorize my arcade games into subs to make it easier to find games but need the kiosk features.

                    RetroPie v4.2 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 8GB SanDisk class 10 microSD • 16GB External USB Thumb Drive
                    Roms, images and configs stored in USB and symlinked from normal microsd location
                    Xarcade Keyboard encoder + Zero Delay Joystick encoder

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                      sp00k
                      last edited by

                      hello
                      just bit the bullet and joined the forum
                      many themes touched upon in this thread are near / dear to me
                      i too want to share my childhood games with my young daughter
                      es wouldn't start after the kid build

                      so:
                      do you develop on the pi?
                      if so, i might give debugging it a shot
                      i used to be ok at c++, gdb, etc

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                        erenner
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                        Zigurana...

                        I installed the child friendly version of ES last night. It has been working fine until now. I just restarted ES, after adding some MAME roms (zip files), and now it won't boot back into it. It keeps taking me back to the command line and at the top it says something about "out of range". Can you help? I didn't do anything else.

                        Thanks!

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                          erenner @erenner
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                            erenner @erenner
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                            @erenner said in RetroPie 3.7 + Child friendly EmulationStation wont start:

                            Zigurana...

                            I installed the child friendly version of ES last night. It has been working fine until now. I just restarted ES, after adding some MAME roms (zip files), and now it won't boot back into it. It keeps taking me back to the command line and at the top it says something about "out of range". Can you help? I didn't do anything else.

                            Thanks!

                            Okay...so I did the following through Putty from the command line...

                            sudo apt-get update
                            sudo apt-get upgrade
                            Now it seems to be working again. Hmmm...

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